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Last week the striking professional organizations were joined by pilots of LAN-Chile, the national airline. Although many workers were still out, there were signs that the strike-which one leader admitted was designed "to turn the clock back to Sept. 4, 1970," the date of Allende's election-had begun to run out of steam. Faced with mounting economic losses, many shopkeepers have unshuttered their stores. Taxis and buses are running again. The government commandeered 1,500 trucks from striking truck operators and pro-government workers have managed to keep food supplies flowing at a tolerable...
...tested policies. They successfully offered creditable advertising ("Pan Am makes the going great," "There's a Ford in your future"), a rich array of services, and a sturdy sense of security to an impressive roster of blue-chip clients. Today, however, the agency's once imperious élan has been badly shaken...
...natural drift toward realism. Repeatedly, whenever Mao sensed that the bureaucrats seemed to be taking over, he forced a return to basic revolutionary principles, often at chaotic cost to the country. He skirmished with intellectuals, with army professionals who thought that modern weapons were more important than revolutionary élan, with economic planners who thought the Great Leap Forward to instant industrialization was dangerous nonsense (which...
...rest of George McGovern's campaign had gotten off to a halting start, Vice Presidential Candidate Sargent Shriver was already bringing an early New Frontier élan to the race. Some of his bright-eyed lieutenants recruited from the old Peace Corps ranks even seemed to welcome Richard Nixon's lead in the polls. Said one breathlessly: "It's so much more of a challenge this way, don't you think?" TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler spent four days following the Shriver campaign and offered these impressions: At McGovern-Shriver headquarters in Washington, one of Sargent Shriver...
...Allende has been trying to shore up his country's international credit rating. He has begun to make token payments on some of Chile's obligations to foreign firms, including the Anaconda Co., which last week dropped court-ordered liens against certain Chilean properties-including holdings of LAN-Chile, the state airline-with assets in the U.S. Allende has also paid at least half of the $2.2 million in interest due the Boise Cascade Corp., which owned an electric company that was sold to the Chilean government in 1970. In Paris, no agreement has been reached with...